Domination of Flames by Rangers at Garden Comes to End

Johnny Gaudreau and Garnet Hathaway every scored twice and the backup goalie David Rittich made 44 saves because the Calgary Flames beat the host Rangers, Four-1, on Sunday evening.

The Flames had misplaced of their final six visits to Madison Square Garden, however their pace and opportunistic play have been an excessive amount of for the Rangers. Calgary scored three or extra objectives for the seventh straight recreation. Mika Zibanejad scored for the Rangers.

Gaudreau opened the scoring on the 17-minute mark of the primary interval, backhanding the puck previous Henrik Lundqvist. Sean Monahan picked up the help.

Hathaway made it 2-Zero at 12 minutes 21 seconds of the second along with his first purpose this season. Gaudreau scored once more at 14:55, extending the result in Three-Zero along with his fifth purpose of the season. The Flames’ captain, Mark Giordano, assisted on the rating, which was Gaudreau’s 300th profession level.

The Rangers have been coming off an extra time loss at Washington on Wednesday after profitable in a shootout over Colorado the earlier evening. The Rangers have had bother scoring objectives beneath their new coach, David Quinn.

Johnny Gaudreau, proper, after scoring considered one of his two objectives. His teammate Garnet Hathaway additionally scored twice.CreditAdam Hunger/Associated Press

The Rangers have but to win in regulation, scoring simply 19 objectives of their first eight video games, together with one shootout win and one in extra time.

Rittich, an undrafted 26-year-old from the Czech Republic, made 12 saves within the first interval, 13 within the second and 19 within the third.

His solely blemish was Zibanejad’s power-play purpose at 6:41 of the third. Zibanejad’s third purpose this season was assisted by Neal Pionk and Mats Zuccarello.

The Rangers had a superb opportunity to slender the deficit somewhat greater than a minute later, however Rittich made successive saves on Jesper Fast and Zibanejad. Rittich denied Filip Chytil on a backhand from the slot with 4 minutes left.

Hathaway accomplished the scoring along with his second purpose at 18:07 of the third.

The Rangers got here into the competition with a 10-1-1 file towards the Flames, beginning with a 2-1 win at house on Nov. 22, 2010.

Gaudreau, who leads the Flames with 12 factors, was a teammate of Rangers forwards Kevin Hayes and Chris Kreider at Boston College when the Eagles gained the nationwide championship.